Oberlin, Ohio/oberlin080
Previous | Home | NextThe home of the Hall family was Herman and Sophronia Hall, who moved to Oberlin in 1873. Charles went to high school in Oberlin and matriculated in Oberlin College. His professor Frank Jewett encouraged him in his studies, and in the woodshed behind his family home developed the electrolytic process of cryolite (sodium fluoroaluminate) {LINK: Copen665-126-679L cryolite from greenland}.
